Elevation of East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America is 263 m (863 ft) above sea level.

East Lansing's height from sea level is 263 metres, or 863 feet. GeoNames reads 262 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 261 m.

Ground within 4 km

254 m – 273 m

Mean 262 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 19 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 29

among the towns of Michigan, and 240th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

5.9 km to the W, at 263 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through East Lansing

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is East Lansing; the vertical scale is the same on both.

292231WE24.9 km
West to east: from 264 m at 12 km west to 267 m at 12 km east.
292231NS24.9 km
North to south: from 250 m at 12 km north to 273 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around East Lansing, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near East Lansing

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lansing 5.9 kmW 263 m (863 ft) same

Where East Lansing is

Latitude 42.7369792, longitude -84.4838654. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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East Lansing elevation: 263 m (863 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at East Lansing's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 262 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.